Delphine Quotes

Delphine, a mature yet childish girl, has a very complex character with a change of personality over the entire book 'One Crazy Summer'. Throughout the book William presents Delphine as a mature and serious girl who is represented in lots of things, some being mature and on the other hand, she can be shone as being childish. She has a very big responsibility of taking care of her sisters which she does this very well; as when she and her sisters go to see her original mother who left them when they were younger, they grow much more mature and learn the truth about the world including racism and injustice. She and her siblings learn these by being forced to spend their day at the black panther daycare. Throughout the book, they grew much more

This is explained in the phrase," Can count on it to keep things on schedule." Furthermore, this shows that she is looking after her sisters and herself by keeping things on a 'schedule' by constantly checking the time on her watch which is very impressive for an 11-year-old girl. However as I also said before, she can act like a little child. This is proven in the line," I wanted to squeal and ooh like a seven-year-old girl meeting tinker bell." The author compares her to a seven-year-old to show that she is still a little girl, and has the desire to be a child, just like any other girl. This also illustrates that she is ashamed to show her child personality, as although she thinks these thoughts and wants to do them, she holds her emotion back; this shows that she is either ashamed or maybe embarrassed. A major reason she does this is to look powerful, to protect her sisters which shows how valuable it is in helping to manage her responsibilities. Overall, Delphine is a interesting character, for the author shows her personality of a reliable girl, but the author also shows her other split side, the little girl who wants to, "Squeal and

This is illustrated in the phrase, "They shot him anyway, over and over." And the reason they shot him in the first place, was because he is part of the Black Panther community and they were acting very racist. I know this, as he surrendered and yet they still shot him, "Over and Over." This greatly impacts the reader, mainly because of the repetition used in this sentence. For the author cleverly added repetition in the phrase to make a bigger impact on the reader. It also shows the racism going on in the world at that time. It was unnecessary to shoot him in the first place, yet the police continued to shoot him. This injustice makes Delphine more frightened, as she now has a bigger understanding of the world and realizing that they shot him just because he was in the back panther community, makes Delphine very scared for her sisters, as she does certainly not want the same fate for her family. And this already massive impact is even bigger for her as currently at the time, she is the main guardian for her siblings as Cecile is exactly the ideal parent, so all of this tension on just a little 11-year-old girl is sure to make her